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IPC TEAM

Nicolò Cinotti

Secretary General

Dennis Erpelding

Science & Trade Advisor

Caroline Leroux

Head of
Events

Elisabetta Olgiati

Communications Officer

Phouth Gonzalez

Accounting Manager

OUR HISTORY

2005

Tage Lysgaard (European Union) and Jim Sumner (United States) launch IPC in Cologne, Germany, with Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Mexico, Thailand and Turkey. Jim Sumner is elected President.

2008

IPC signs an agreement with the World Health Organisation for Animal Health.

2009

IPC is granted Observer status with the Codex Alimentarius Commission.

2010

IPC signs its first Memorandum of Agreement with the Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

2012

IPC joins the FAO’s Livestock Environmental Assessment & Performance Project (LEAP).

2014

IPC joins the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock (GASL).

2015

IPC signs its second Memorandum of Agreement with the FAO.

2017

IPC adopts and publishes its Antimicrobial Stewardship Principles.

2018

IPC renews its second MoU with the FAO.

2019

Jim Sumner steps down and Robin Horel (Canada) is elected President.

 

IPC signs the IPC-FAO Declaration of Sao Paulo on Sustainability in the Poultry Industry.

2020

IPC publishes a series of positions and guidance on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

Adriaan Weststrate is recognized as Poultry Person of the World.

2021

The TRANSFORM initiative is launched in partnership with Cargill and Heifer International.

 

IPC takes part in the UN Food Systems Summit in partnership with other livestock associations.

2022

IPC launches its new Global Data Platform and publishes the first Macroeconomic Indicators report on the global poultry industry.

2023

IPC contributes to the World Organisation for Animal Health’s General Session and inaugural Animal Health Forum.

 

IPC joins the WOAH Observatory to study compartmentalization in avian influenza.

 

IPC joins the Quadrapartite AMR multi-stakeholders partnership platform.

2024

Ricardo Santin is elected President.

2025

IPC celebrates 20 years of existence at its Annual Meeting in Casablanca, Morocco.

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